facilitated the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reconnection Project from 2014 to 2015, which sought to address the potential link between the overrepresentation of Aboriginal young people in Juvenile Justice alongside the possible cultural dislocation which may lead to a compromised sense of self ...
Parramatta RiverAlluvial terraceTerminal PleistoceneCumulative impactWe present a synthesis of 14 compliance-based investigations of an archaeologically significant sand body on the banks of the Parramatta River. We find the alluvial deposit initially formed50,000years ago (50 ka), but with extensive ...
Parramatta history The Burramatta people belonged to the Darug people of the Sydney area, and in that Aboriginal language 'burra' means eel and 'matta' means place. What do aboriginals call Australia? The nations of Indigenous Australia were, and are, as separate as the nations of Europe or...
A compliance-based excavation on Parramatta River (western Sydney) found evidence of a brief visitation by Aboriginal people during the terminal Pleistocene (c.14 ka), from which an exotic raw material-medium-grained porphyroblastic andalusite-cordierite hornfels-was recovered. This raw material is ...
ParramattaMany Aboriginal stories have not been allowed to be told historically due to theover-whelming dominance of non-Aboriginal stories. Many Aboriginal stories were onceoutlawed and so were forgotten, some only partially remembered, many now only told in thelanguage of the invaders. There are ...
were shot by non-Aboriginal people near Toongabbie (Sydney). Reference: Fletcher (1989a) p 15. Reverend Samuel Marsden attempted to provide a British education for 'Tristan' and sent him to school in Parramatta. 'Tristan' was one of the earliest known Aboriginal people to attend a NSW ...